Proprietary data formats, undisclosed specifications, partial standardisation, lack of adequate open formats, and the fast obsolescence of hardware, supporting operative systems and software are the major issues undermining both the data survival and reuse.

The cultural impact of data curation in these practices is a new phenomenon that reshapes established contextual procedures, legal requirements and professional definitions.

This DEDICATE seminar gathers together speakers from different institutions and background to demonstrate a variety of initiatives addressing the management of Built Environment related data that converge investigative methods, cultural approaches to data production and management and digital techniques.

This meeting would be of interest to:

• Architects, Engineers and Consultants in the AEC sector

• Archaeologists

• Records managers and information officers

• Regulators

• Risk managers, executives and chief information officers seeking to minimise information risk or maximise information potential

• Collections managers, librarians, curators and archivists in all institutions

• Tools developers and policy makers in digital preservation

• Innovators and researchers in information technology, especially with vector graphics and documentation

• Vendors and providers of services for preservation, records management and forensics

• Innovators, vendors and commentators on digital preservation and cognate fields

• Analysts seeking to develop tools and approaches for longer term information management

Program of the day:

10:00 Registration and Coffee

10:25 Welcome and Introductions

10:30 DURAARK - Michelle Lindlar, German National Library of Science and Technology

11:00 Preserving CAD, the DPC report – Alex Ball, University of Bath

11:30 Coffee break

11:45 BIM centre - Graham Hayne, Glasgow Caledonian University

12:15 the RIBA Enterprises BIM programme – John McKechnie, RIBA Enterprises

12:45 Lunch

13:45 CyArk Europe - Adam Frost, CyArk Europe

14:15 Curating the RCAHMS collections- Emily Nimmo, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

14:45

Beyond Built Heritage Documentation: digital applications needs for research and conservation

- Cristina Gonzalez-Longo, University of Strathclyde

15:15 Coffee break

15:30 round table

16:30 Thanks and close

More information on DEDICATE can be found at http://architecturedigitalcuration.blogspot.co.uk/